Desert Landscape

1951

William Baziotes

Painter, American, 1912 - 1963

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On View

NGA, East Building, EU-407-B, E


Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil and charcoal on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 61.3 x 106.7 cm (24 1/8 x 42 in.)
    framed: 63.5 x 108.9 x 3.2 cm (25 x 42 7/8 x 1 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.81.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York); sold 1958 to Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, Phoenix, Maryland;[1] gift 1996 to NGA.
[1] Provenance from The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996: 237.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1952

  • Baziotes: New Paintings, Kootz Gallery, New York, 1952, no. 7.

1959

  • New Paintings and Sculpture from Established and Newly Formed Baltimore Collections, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1959.

1964

  • Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, 1964.

1966

  • Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966.

1973

  • Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1973.

1996

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 7, color repro.

2000

  • William Baziotes: The Poetic Spirit, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, 2000-2001, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2004

  • William Baziotes: Paintings and Drawings, 1934-1962, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2004-2005, no. 27, repro.

2014

  • Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, 2014, pl. 17.

Bibliography

1996

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996: no. 7.

Inscriptions

lower right: Baziotes; on reverse: DESERT LANDSCAPE / Wm. Baziotes

Wikidata ID

Q20194430


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